Integrated circuit structure, display module, and inspection method thereof

ABSTRACT

An integrated circuit has a first pin, a voltage outputting circuit electrically connected to the first pin, a second pin, a current receiving circuit electrically connected to the second pin and a comparing circuit electrically connected to the current receiving circuit. The voltage outputting circuit outputs a first current which flow into the current receiving circuit through the second pin. After receiving the first current, the current receiving circuit outputs an output current to the comparing circuit and the comparing circuit compares the output current and a reference current to output an output signal.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED PATENT APPLICATION

This application claims the benefit of priority to Taiwan PatentApplication No. 105144239, filed Dec. 30, 2016. The entire content ofthe above identified application is incorporated herein by reference.

Some references, which may include patents, patent applications andvarious publications, are cited and discussed in the description of thisdisclosure. The citation and/or discussion of such references isprovided merely to clarify the description of the present disclosure andis not an admission that any such reference is “prior art” to thedisclosure described herein. All references cited and discussed in thisspecification are incorporated herein by reference in their entiretiesand to the same extent as if each reference was individuallyincorporated by reference.

FIELD

The present disclosure relates to an integrated circuit, andparticularly, to an integrated circuit for a user to judge informationabout connection conditions of pins.

BACKGROUND

In the conventional art, during assembling of a liquid crystal display,it is often necessary to inspect connection conditions of pins andconnection pads of the integrated circuit. However, as the integratedcircuit is small-sized, if wiring is relatively complicated, the mannerof measuring resistance by using an ammeter is more difficult andcomplicated. Therefore, a problem to be solved exists in how theconnection conditions of the pins of the integrated circuit may beeffectively determined.

SUMMARY

An embodiment of the present disclosure discloses an integrated circuit.The integrated circuit has a first pin, a voltage outputting circuitelectrically connected to the first pin and outputting a first current,a second pin, a current receiving circuit electrically connected to thesecond pin, receiving the first current and outputting an outputcurrent, and a comparing circuit electrically connected to the currentreceiving circuit. The comparing circuit compares the output current anda reference current to output an output signal.

Another embodiment of the present disclosure discloses a bonding statetest method of driving an integrated circuit by a liquid crystaldisplay, the test method comprising: setting the integrated circuit tooperate in a bonding state test mode, setting a bonding impedancethreshold, generating a reference current corresponding to the bondingimpedance threshold; selecting a position to be tested, the integratedcircuit outputting a first current through a first pin, the integratedcircuit receiving the first current flowing in from a second pin andgenerating an output current, and if the output current is greater thanthe reference current, outputting a first signal; if the output currentis less than the reference current, outputting a second signal.

A further embodiment of the present disclosure discloses a liquidcrystal display, comprising a substrate, a first group of bumps locatedon the substrate, a second group of bumps located on the substrate andadjacent to the first group of bumps, and an integrated circuit having aplurality of first pins and a plurality of second pins, wherein thefirst group of bumps has at least two electrically connected bumps, thesecond group of bumps has at least two electrically connected bumps, andthe two electrically connected bumps in the first group of bumps and thetwo electrically connected bumps in the second group of bumps areelectrically connected to the first pins and the second pins of thecorresponding integrated circuit respectively.

Based on the above, the integrated circuit and the method for judgingconnection conditions of pins and connection pads provided in theembodiments of the present disclosure can rapidly and effectivelymeasure connection conditions of pins and connection pads of theintegrated circuit. Moreover, as the integrated circuit calculatesimpedance to judge the connection conditions of pins and connection padsby means of current comparison, the accuracy of calculating bondingimpedance is better, and at the same time, a smaller area inside theintegrated circuit is occupied, which can reduce complexity of thecircuit and the cost of the integrated circuit.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a bonding impedance inspection systemof a display.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a display panel.

FIG. 3A is a schematic diagram of a combination of the display panel andan integrated circuit according to a first embodiment of the presentdisclosure.

FIG. 3B is a schematic diagram of a combination of the display panel andan integrated circuit according to a second embodiment of the presentdisclosure.

FIG. 4 is a sectional diagram of two electrically connected second bumpsalong A-A′.

FIG. 5A is a partial schematic diagram of a test circuit in a driverchip according to the first embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 5B is a partial schematic diagram of a test circuit in a driverchip according to the second embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 6 is an operation flowchart.

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of relative positions of a first group ofbumps, a second group of bumps and a third group of bumps.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Embodiments accompanied with figures are described in detail below, tobetter understand the aspects of the application. However, theembodiments provided are not intended to limit the scope of the presentdisclosure. The description of structures and operations are notintended to limit the order of execution. Any structure formed byrecombining elements shall fall within the scope of the presentdisclosure as long as an equivalent apparatus can be generated. Inaddition, according to the standard in the industry and common practice,the figures are merely provided for the purpose of description, but arenot drawn to scale. In effect, sizes of various features may beincreased or decreased arbitrarily to facilitate description. Like orsimilar elements are denoted by like reference numerals in the followingdescription to facilitate understanding.

Unless otherwise specified, all the terms used throughout thespecification and the claims generally have the same meaning as iscommonly used in the field, in the content of the present disclosure andin special content. Some terms used for describing the presentdisclosure will be discussed below or in other parts of thisspecification, so as to provide additional guidance for persons skilledin the art in addition to the description of the present disclosure.

Besides, the terms “comprise”, “include”, “have” and “contain” as usedherein are all open terms, that is, mean “including, but not limitedto”. Also, the term “and/or” as used herein includes any or allcombinations of one or more items in related listed items.

As used herein, when an element is referred to as “connected” or“coupled”, it may mean “electrically connected” or “electricallycoupled”. The term “connected” or “coupled” may mean that two or moreelements co-operate or interact with each other.

The electrical connection described in the present disclosure isillustrated as direct electrical connection or indirect electricalconnection, the indirect electrical connection is electrical connectionmanners other than the direct electrical connection, and the indirectelectrical connection is, for example, other members (e.g., circuits,transistors, capacitors, diodes, resistors or other electronic elements)in an electrical connection path, but are not intended to limit thepresent invention. Further, although the terms “first”, “second” and thelike as used herein describe different elements, the terms are only usedfor distinguishing r elements or operations described with liketechnical terms. Unless clearly indicated in the context, the termsneither necessarily refer to or imply an order or sequence nor areintended to limit the present invention.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a bonding impedance inspection systemof a display according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2is a schematic diagram of a display panel of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is aschematic diagram of a combination of the display panel of FIG. 1 and anintegrated circuit. Referring to FIG. 1, FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 at the sametime, the bonding impedance inspection system of the display accordingto this embodiment includes a display panel 100, at least one circuitboard 200, at least one driver chip 300 and at least one system board400.

The display panel 100 has multiple first wires 110 electricallyconnected to a first group of bumps (connection pads, OLB) 111 andmultiple second wires 112 electrically connected to a second group ofbumps 113 (connection pads, ILB), the first wires 110 are used foroutputting various signals to a circuit and pixels at an inner side ofthe display panel, that is, the first wires extend towards the directionof a display region and are electrically connected to a line in thedisplay region, and the second wires 112 are used for receiving signalsinput from the outside, for example, the second wires are electricallyconnected to the system board 400, that is, extend towards a reversedirection of the display region, as shown in FIG. 3.

Specifically, referring to FIG. 2, the display panel 100 includes asubstrate 102, multiple scan lines SL, multiple data lines DL andmultiple pixel structures P, multiple first wires 110 and multiplesecond wires 112. The display panel, for example, may be a liquidcrystal display panel, an organic light-emitting display panel, anelectrophoretic display panel or a plasma display panel and so on.

The substrate 102 may be made of glass, quartz, an organic polymer, oran opaque/reflective material (e.g., a conductive material, metal,wafer, ceramics, or other suitable materials) or other suitablematerials. The substrate 102 has a bonding region 108, a display region106 and a non-display region 104.

The scan lines SL and the data lines DL are disposed on the substrate102, and extend from the display region 106 to the non-display region104. The pixel structures P are disposed in the display region 106 ofthe substrate 102, and each pixel structure P is electrically connectedto the corresponding scan line SL and data line DL. According to thisembodiment, the pixel structures P each include a switch element T and apixel electrode PE, the switch elements T are electrically connected tothe scan lines SL and the data lines DL, and the pixel electrodes PE areelectrically connected to the switch elements T. The switch elements Tmay be bottom gate-type thin film transistors or top gate-type thin filmtransistors. The pixel electrodes PE may be transmission pixelelectrodes, reflection pixel electrodes or semi-transmission andsemi-reflection pixel electrodes.

In addition, the scan lines SL and the data lines DL, after extendingfrom the display region 106 to the non-display region 104, areelectrically connected to the corresponding first wires 110respectively, and electrically connected to the driver chip 300. Thebonding region 108 marked in FIG. 2 represents a chip bonding region, inother words, the driver chip 300 is actually bonded in the bondingregion 108.

Referring to FIG. 3A, FIG. 3A shows an embodiment of the presentdisclosure. The driver chip 300 includes multiple voltage outputtingcircuits 501, multiple current receiving circuits 504 and multiplecomparing circuit 505, which are directly integrated into the driverchip 300. In other embodiments, they may not be integrated into thesingle driver chip 300. The driver chip 300 also has at least one firstpin 301 electrically connected to the corresponding voltage outputtingcircuits 501, at least one second pin 302 electrically connected to thecorresponding current receiving circuits 504, multiple first connectingpins 303, and multiple second connecting pins 304. The multiple firstconnecting pins 303 are electrically connected to the first wires 110 ofthe display panel 100 and the multiple second connecting pins 304 areelectrically connected to the second wires 112. According to thisembodiment, the connecting pins 303 of the driver chip 300 areelectrically connected to the first wires 110 through the first group ofbumps 111 of the display panel 100, and the second pins 304 of thedriver chip 300 are electrically connected to the second wires 112through the second group of bumps 113 of the display panel 100. Thefirst group of bumps 111 have first bumps 111 a and second bumps 111 b,the first bumps 111 a are used for electrically coupling the firstconnecting pins 303, wherein two adjacent second bumps 111 b in an Xdirection, in general the X direction is from left to right, areelectrically connected through third wires 114, and one of the twoelectrically connected second bumps 111 b is electrically connected tothe first pins 301 and the other one is electrically connected to thesecond pins 302, but the two electrically connected second bumps 111 bare not electrically connected to the first wires 110. Alternatively, inother embodiments, the second bumps 111 b may be adjacent in a Ydirection, in general the Y direction is from bottom to up, orelectrically connected after crossing multiple first bumps 111 a. Thesecond group of bumps 113 have first bumps 113 a and second bumps 113 b,the first bumps 113 a are used for electrically connected the secondconnecting pins 304, two adjacent second bumps 113 b in an X directionare electrically connected through fourth wires 115, and one of the twoelectrically connected second bumps 113 b is electrically connected tothe first pins 301 and the other one is electrically connected to thesecond pins 302, but the two electrically connected second bumps 113 bare not electrically connected to the second wires 112. Alternatively,in other embodiments, the second bumps 113 b may be adjacent in a Ydirection or electrically connected after crossing multiple first bumps113 a.

Referring to FIG. 3B, FIG. 3B shows another embodiment of the presentdisclosure. The driver chip 300 includes a voltage outputting circuit501, a first selection circuit 502, a second selection circuit 503, acurrent receiving circuit 504 and a comparing circuit 505, which aredirectly integrated into the driver chip 300. In other embodiments, theymay not be integrated into the single driver chip 300. The driver chip300 also has at least one first pin 301, at least one second pin 302,multiple first connecting pins 303, and multiple second connecting pins304. The multiple first connecting pins 303 are electrically connectedto the first wires 110 of the display panel 100 and the multiple secondconnecting pins 304 are electrically connected to the second wires 112.According to this embodiment, the connecting pins 303 of the driver chip300 are electrically connected to the first wires 110 through the firstgroup of bumps 111 of the display panel 100, and the second pins 304 ofthe driver chip 300 are electrically connected to the second wires 112through the second group of bumps 113 of the display panel 100. Thefirst group of bumps 111 have first bumps 111 a and second bumps 111 b,the first bumps 111 a are used for electrically coupling the firstconnecting pins 303, wherein two adjacent second bumps 111 b in an Xdirection are electrically connected through third wires 114, and one ofthe two electrically connected second bumps 111 b is electricallyconnected to the first pins 301 and the other one is electricallyconnected to the second pins 302, but the two electrically connectedsecond bumps 111 b are not electrically connected to the first wires110. Alternatively, in other embodiments, the second bumps 111 b may beadjacent in a Y direction or electrically connected after crossingmultiple first bumps 111 a. The second group of bumps 113 have firstbumps 113 a and second bumps 113 b, the first bumps 113 a are used forelectrically coupling the second connecting pins 304, two adjacentsecond bumps 113 b in an x direction are electrically connected throughfourth wires 115, and one of the two electrically connected second bumps113 b is electrically connected to the first pins 301 and the other oneis electrically connected to the second pins 302, but the twoelectrically connected second bumps 113 b are not electrically connectedto the second wires 112. Alternatively, in other embodiments, the secondbumps 113 b may be adjacent in a y direction or electrically connectedafter crossing multiple first bumps 113 a.

Referring to FIG. 4, FIG. 4 is a sectional diagram of the twoelectrically connected second bumps 111 b of FIG. 3B along A-A′. Thefirst pins 301 of the integrated circuit 300 are electrically connectedto one of two second bumps 111 b in the first group of bumps which areelectrically connected through the third wires 114, and the second pins302 are electrically connected to the other second bump 111 b. In thisembodiment, the second bump 111 b is generally electrically connected tothe first pins 301 or the second pins 302 by using anisotropicconductive adhesive (ACF) 400 b.

According to this embodiment, the driver chip 300 is bonded to thedisplay panel 100 by means of ACF 400 a and 400 b, and the first pins301 and the second pins 302 of the driver chip 300 are electricallyconnected to the corresponding second bumps 111 b of the display panel100. Specifically, after making of the display panel 100 is completed,the ACF 400 a and 400 b may be disposed in a particular region on thedisplay panel 100, and then the driver chip 300 is placed on the ACF 400a and 400 b. Then, the driver chip 300 is bonded to the display panel100 by means of the ACF 400 a and 400 b through a thermal compressionbonding program, and multiple first pins 301, multiple second pins 302,multiple first connecting pins 303 and multiple second connecting pins304 of the driver chip 300 are electrically connected to the panel 100,which is well known to those skilled in the art and thus is not repeatedherein.

Generally, each bonded pin and the bump on the display panel have abonding impedance. In this embodiment, for example, the first pin 301and the second bump 111 b have a bonding impedance R_(bump1), the secondpin 302 and the second bump 111 b have a bonding impedance R_(bump2),and two third wires 114 connecting the second bump 111 b have a lineimpedance R_(line), and if the bonding program is abnormal, the bondingimpedance between the driver chip 300 and the display panel 100 may betoo high.

Referring to FIG. 5A, FIG. 5A is a partial schematic diagram of a testcircuit in the driver chip 300. The voltage outputting circuit 501 iselectrically connected to the first pins 301, the current receivingcircuit 504 is electrically connected to the second pins 302, and thecomparing circuit 505 is electrically connected to the current receivingcircuit 504; FIG. 5B shows another embodiment of the test circuit in thedriver chip 300. Because the first embodiment as shown in FIG. 5A andthe second embodiment as shown in FIG. 5B have similar structures, thedisclosure will only describe the structure of the second embodiment.Different from the structure as shown in FIG. 5A, the driver chip 300has a first selection circuit 502 and a second selection circuit 503,the first selection circuit 502, for example, may be a multiplexer orany switch circuit, and is electrically connected to the first pins 301,and the voltage outputting circuit 501 is electrically connected to thefirst selection circuit 502. The second selection circuit 503, forexample, may be a multiplexer or any switch circuit, and is electricallyconnected to the second pins 302, the current receiving circuit 504 iselectrically connected to the second selection circuit 503, the voltageoutputting circuit 501 has a third transistor 5011 and a secondamplifier 5012, a first end of the third transistor 5011 is electricallyconnected to a first default voltage V₁, which, for example, may be asystem high voltage V_(dd), a second end of the third transistor 5011 iselectrically connected to the first selection circuit 502 and a controlend of the third transistor 5011 is electrically connected to an outputend of the second amplifier 5012, a first end of the second amplifier5012 is electrically connected to the first selection circuit 502 and asecond end of the second amplifier 5012 is electrically connected to asecond input voltage V_(ref); the current receiving circuit 504 has afirst transistor 5041, a first amplifier 5042 and a first transistor5043, a first end of the first transistor 5041 is electrically connectedto a second-default voltage V₂, which, for example, may be a system lowvoltage V_(ss), a second end of the first transistor 5041 iselectrically connected to the second selection circuit 503, a controlend of the first transistor 5041 is electrically connected to an outputend of the first amplifier 5042, and a first end of the first amplifier5042 is electrically connected to the second selection circuit 503 and asecond end of the first amplifier 5042 is electrically connected to afirst input voltage Vi, which, for example, may be a system low voltageV_(ss). A first end of the first transistor 5043 is electricallyconnected to the second default voltage V₂, which, for example, may be asystem low voltage V_(ss), a control end of the first transistor 5043 iselectrically connected to the output end of the first amplifier 5042 anda second end of the first transistor 5043 outputs the output current I₂.As the first transistor 5041 and the third transistor 5043 form acurrent mirror architecture, an output current value may be adjusted byadjusting a ratio of the channel length to the width of the first andfirst transistors, for example, the second first transistor has a firstchannel length L1 and a first channel width W1, and the first transistorhas a second channel length L2 and a second channel width W2 andW1/L1=N*W2/L2; then, the output current I₂ may be equal to N times ofthe first current I₁; the comparing circuit 505 receives an outputcurrent output by the first transistor 5043 and compares the outputcurrent with a reference current I_(comp), the output signal Vo outputsa logic high level if the output current is greater than or equal to thereference current I_(comp), and the output signal Vo outputs a logic lowlevel if the output current is less than the reference current.

Referring to FIG. 5 and FIG. 6, FIG. 6 is an operation flowchart, and anoperation principle is described later. When it is necessary to detect abonding condition of pins and bumps of an integrated circuit, theintegrated circuit is set to operate in a test mode at first, next atest region is set, a first selection circuit and a second selectioncircuit are controlled, by outputting a selection signal, to connectfirst pins 301 and second pins 302 in a particular region respectively(i.e., connected to bumps in the particular region), as the bumps areelectrically connected by wires, for example, the two second bumps 111 bin the first group of bumps 111 in FIG. 3A are electrically connected bythird wires 114 or the two second bumps 113 b in the second group ofbumps 113 are electrically connected by fourth wires 115, herein, thesecond bumps 111 b are taken as an example, and thus the voltageoutputting circuit 501, the second bumps 111 b, the third wires 114, thesecond bumps 111 b and the current receiving circuit 504 form a loop. Asthe wires have resistance R_(line), the first pins, the second pins andthe corresponding bumps have resistances R_(bump1) and _(bump2)respectively; in another embodiment, in FIG. 3B, the voltage outputtingcircuit 501, the first selection circuit 502, the second bumps 111 b,the third wires 114, the second bumps 111 b, the second selectioncircuit 503 and the current receiving circuit 504 form a loop, theimpedance of the selection circuit is switch impedance and can beomitted, and thus there may be a first current I₁I ₁ =V _(ref) /(R _(line) +R _(bump1) +R _(bump2))

flowing out of the voltage outputting circuit 501 through the bumps 111b and the wires 114 and then flowing into the current receiving circuit504. The current receiving circuit 504 has a current mirror formed bythe first transistor 5041 and the second transistor 5043. As the channelwidth of the first transistor 5041 is M and the channel width of thesecond transistor 5043 is N, resulting in an output current I₂:I ₂ =N/M*I _(1.)

The output current I₂, after flowing to the comparing circuit 505, iscompared with the set reference current I_(comp). If the output currentI₂ is less than the reference current I_(comp), the output signal V_(o)outputs a logic low level, which represents that the connectioncondition of the pins and the bumps is poor, and thus the resistance ishigher than the standard one. If the output current is greater than orequal to the reference current, the output signal V_(o) outputs a logichigh level, which represents that the connection condition of the pinsand the bumps is good, and thus the resistance is lower than or equal tothe standard one. Next, the above steps are repeated to test bondingconditions in all regions, for example, on the premise that the channelwidth of the first transistor 5041 and the channel width of the secondtransistor 5043 are designed to be the same, suppose that a bondingimpedance value is set as 20 ohm, I_(comp)=10 mV/20=0.5 mA, when anactual bonding impedance R_(line)+R_(bump1)+R_(bump2)=10 ohm, I₁=10/10=1mA=I₂, I₂>I_(comp), the comparing circuit 505 outputs a logic high level(H), indicating that the bonding impedance conforms to thespecification; on the contrary, when the actual bonding impedanceR_(line)+R_(bump1)+R_(bump2)=25 ohm, I₁=10 mV/25 ohm=0.4 mA=I₂,I2<I_(comp), the comparing circuit 505 outputs a logic low level (L),indicating that the bonding impedance does not conform to thespecification. It can be understood from the above formulas that theinput current I_(comp) is correlated with V_(ref), and thus differentbonding impedance values can be controlled by adjusting the second inputvoltage V_(ref), to adapt to different detection standards to increasedetection elasticity.

In this embodiment, the result of the comparing circuit 505 is directlyoutput; in other embodiments, the driver chip 300 further comprises abuffer 310, for temporarily storing information of the comparing circuit505, and upon completion of all the test, outputting the result to thesystem board 400.

Referring to FIG. 7, in this embodiment, the display panel 100 furtherhas a third group of bumps 117 disposed in a region adjacent to thesecond group of bumps 113, the length of the second group of bumps fromthe left boundary of the leftmost bump to the right boundary of therightmost bump is WB1 and the length of the third group of bumps fromthe left boundary of the leftmost bump to the right boundary of therightmost bump is WB2, and in addition, the number of the second groupof bumps is not necessarily the same as that of the third group ofbumps. In a known formula of torque,

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Specifically, the first group of bumps 111 form the total area A1, thesecond group of bumps 113 and the third group of bumps 117 form thetotal area A2, the central distance D1 is a distance between the centralposition C1 of the first group of bumps 111 and the central position C2of the integrated circuit 300, the central distance D2 is a distancebetween the central position C3 formed by the second group of bumps 113and the third group of bumps 117 and the central position C2 of theintegrated circuit 300, it can be known from the formula of torque that,when the input pad total area increases, the torque may decrease, whileincreasing the third group of bumps 117 substantially the same as thewidth of the second group of bumps 113 in the X direction may increasethe input pad total area A2. In some embodiments, a memory may be usedin the integrated circuit 300, and thus, to reduce the torque, thefollowing formula has to be satisfied:d ₁ ≤d ₃ −d ₂.

A distance between the central position of the second group of bumps 113and the central position of the third group of bumps 117 in the ydirection is d1, the length of the integrated circuit 300 originally notusing a memory is d2, the length of the integrated circuit 300 using amemory is d3, and with such design, the torque can be kept at a lowerlevel to increase the yield of the bonding.

Although one driver chip 300 is depicted in this embodiment, the presentdisclosure does not limit the number of the driver chip 300. In fact,the number of the driver chip 300 is relevant to the size of the displaypanel 100. Therefore, the driver chip 300 may be at least one gatedriver chip, at least one source driver chip, at least one integratedcircuit chip or a combination thereof.

Based on the above, the integrated circuit and the method for judgingconnection conditions of pins of the integrated circuit provided in theembodiments of the present disclosure can effectively and accuratelymeasure bonding conditions of pins and bumps of the integrated circuit.Therefore, after the reason for the failure is obtained, complexity ofmaintenance can be simplified. In addition, through the increased thirdgroup of bumps, the torque can be effectively reduced to increase theyield of the bonding.

The foregoing are merely preferred embodiments of the present invention,and any equivalent variations and modifications made according to theclaims of the present invention shall fall within the scope of thepresent invention.

What is claimed is:
 1. A liquid crystal display, comprising: asubstrate; a first group of bumps located on the substrate; a secondgroup of bumps located on the substrate and adjacent to the first groupof bumps; and an integrated circuit having a plurality of first pins anda plurality of second pins; wherein the first group of bumps has atleast two electrically connected bumps, the second group of bumps has atleast two electrically connected bumps, and the two electricallyconnected bumps in the first group of bumps and the two electricallyconnected bumps in the second group of bumps are electrically connectedto the first pins and the second pins of the corresponding integratedcircuit respectively; wherein the integrated circuit comprises: avoltage outputting circuit electrically connected to the first pins; acurrent receiving circuit electrically connected to the second pins foroutputting an output current; and a comparing circuit electricallyconnected to the voltage outputting circuit and comparing the outputcurrent with a reference current to output an output signal; wherein thecurrent receiving circuit comprises: a first transistor having a firstend electrically connected to a system low default voltage, a second endelectrically connected to the second pins and a control end; a firstamplifier having an output end electrically connected to the control endof the first transistor, a first end electrically connected to thesecond pins and a second end electrically connected to a first inputvoltage; and a second transistor having a first end electricallyconnected to the system low default voltage, a control end electricallyconnected to the output end of the first amplifier and a second endoutputting the output current.
 2. The liquid crystal display accordingto claim 1, wherein the first group of bumps comprise a first bump and aplurality of second bumps, the first bump is electrically connected to afirst wire extending towards a first side of the substrate andelectrically connected to a display region, and the at least twoelectrically connected bumps are the plurality of second bumps.
 3. Theliquid crystal display according to claim 2, wherein the first group ofbumps are arranged along a first direction and the at least twoelectrically connected bumps in the first group are arranged along asecond direction.
 4. The liquid crystal display according to claim 1,wherein the second group of bumps comprise a first bump and a pluralityof second bumps, the first bump is electrically connected to a secondwire extending towards a second side of the substrate and electricallyconnected to a system board, and the at least two electrically connectedbumps are the second bump.
 5. The liquid crystal display according toclaim 4, wherein the second group of bumps are arranged along a firstdirection and have a first width and the at least two electricallyconnected bumps in the second group are arranged along the firstdirection.
 6. The liquid crystal display according to claim 1, whereinthe integrated circuit further comprises: a first selection circuithaving a first end for electrically connected to the first pins, and asecond end for electrically connected to the voltage outputting circuit;and a second selection circuit having a first end for electricallyconnected to the second pins, and a second end for electricallyconnected to the current receiving circuit.
 7. The liquid crystaldisplay according to claim 1, wherein the voltage outputting circuitcomprises: a third transistor having a first end electrically connectedto a system high default voltage, a second end electrically connected tothe first pins and a control end; and a second amplifier having anoutput end electrically connected to the control end of the thirdtransistor, a first end electrically connected to the first pins and asecond end electrically connected to a second input voltage.
 8. Theliquid crystal display according to claim 1, wherein the firsttransistor has a first channel length L1 and a first channel width W1,the second transistor has a second channel length L2 and a secondchannel width W2, and W1/L1=N*W2/L2.
 9. The liquid crystal displayaccording to claim 5, further comprising a third group of bumps disposedadjacent to the second group of bumps, wherein the third group of bumpshas a width WB2, and the width WB2 is substantially equal to a width ofthe second group of bumps.
 10. An integrated circuit, comprising: afirst pin; a voltage outputting circuit electrically connected to thefirst pin; a second pin; a current receiving circuit electricallyconnected to the second pin; and a comparing circuit electricallyconnected to the voltage outputting circuit, wherein the currentreceiving circuit comprises: a first transistor having a first endelectrically connected to a system low default voltage, a second endelectrically connected to the second pin and a control end; a firstamplifier having an output end electrically connected to the control endof the first transistor, a first end electrically connected to thesecond pin and a second end electrically connected to a first inputvoltage; and a second transistor having a first end electricallyconnected to the system low default voltage, a control end electricallyconnected to the output end of the first amplifier and a second endoutputting the output current.
 11. The integrated circuit according toclaim 10, further comprising: a first selection circuit having a firstend for electrically connected to the first pin, and a second end forelectrically connected to the voltage outputting circuit; and a secondselection circuit having a first end for electrically connected to thesecond pin, and a second end for electrically connected to the currentreceiving circuit.
 12. The integrated circuit according to claim 10,wherein the voltage outputting circuit comprises: a third transistorhaving a first end electrically connected to a system high defaultvoltage, a second end electrically connected to the first pin and acontrol end; and a second amplifier having an output end electricallyconnected to the control end of the third transistor, a first endelectrically connected to the first pin and a second end electricallyconnected to a second input voltage.
 13. The integrated circuitaccording to claim 10, wherein the first transistor has a first channellength L1 and a first channel width W1, the second transistor has asecond channel length L2 and a second channel width W2, andW1/L1=N*W2/L2.
 14. A bonding state test method of driving the integratedcircuit according to claim 10 by a liquid crystal display, the testmethod comprising: setting the integrated circuit to operate in abonding state test mode; setting a bonding impedance threshold;generating a reference current corresponding to the bonding impedancethreshold; selecting a position to be tested; the integrated circuitoutputting a first current through a first pin; the integrated circuitreceiving the first current flowing in from a second pin and generatingan output current; and if the output current is greater than thereference current, outputting a first signal; if the output current isless than the reference current, outputting a second signal.